BURNLEY boss Sean Dyche was left lamenting another ‘soft goal’ conceded from a corner kick after Swansea won 1-0 at Turf Moor.

Dyche revealed his side had made changes to the way they defended set-pieces having shipped four goals in two games in that manner against West Brom and Manchester United.

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They looked more assured from dead-ball situations at Stamford Bridge last week, but they were undone on Saturday when Bafetimbi Gomis and Jack Cork were left free in the box to create the winner, which will go down as a Tom Heaton own goal.

“We’ve changed slightly, we’ve changed a couple of things, and I said about being proactive from your position and we were just a bit flat on that, a bit flat-footed which allowed Corky to get free from his marker,” said Dyche.

“If you don’t make the first contact you’ve got to win the second. They get a chance, Tom makes a fantastic save, he then makes another one, unfortunately from Tripps who it hits on the knee and spins the wrong way. He saves that, I don’t think that’s one in, and it just squirms out of his hands.

“In the second half we went for it, we tried to win the game, so I can’t question the lads on that.

“They’d hardly been in our end of the pitch in the first 20 minutes and then they score from a soft corner.”

Dyche felt his side had produced a lacklustre performance, which he felt could be put down to the fallout from last week’s controversial draw at Chelsea, with the spotlight trained on Gawthorpe this week.

“There was a little bit flatness to both sides, maybe that was the furore all week for different reasons for both sides,” Dyche added.

“They trained really well. We believe in the energy of the side.

“It just felt to me like it was going to pan out as an indifferent kind of 0-0.

“But we gave away a soft goal and that was the margin that was needed to win it for them.”

Defeat leaves the Clarets in the relegation zone on goal difference behind QPR, who have a game in hand, but Dyche believes there is still plenty of time for his side to claw their way to safety with 11 games still to go.

And the Burnley boss insists he isn’t paying too much attention to the league table just yet.

“If you win enough games it looks after itself,” Dyche added.

“We look at it (the table), my point is it we don’t stare at it and over analyse it. There’s a lot of football still to go.

“I go back to it a lot just as a reference point, but considering where we were after game 10 we are making a good fist of it. There’s plenty of football to be played yet.”